A LOVE LETTER TO NPR.

If you maybe didn't know, we don't have electricity. We don't have lights or a TV. Our computer doesn't work unless it is plugged in....and we don't have plugs. We don't get internet on our cell phones - or phone calls on our cell phones. Basically, we don't have any form of "entertainment" in the classic sense. What we DO have: books, magazines, knitting and writing, our insane and ever-growing menagerie of animals, and our most precious resource: our radio.Jesse and I probably listen to at least 3 hours of NPR a day. On the weekends, we will listen to even more: This American Life, Snap Judgement, Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Wait Wait. We listen to the news every morning while cooking breakfast, and we often fall asleep listening to a Radiolab podcast. Without television or movies or blogs, the reporters on NPR have become our celebrities - we honestly could name every single foreign correspondent and host of any program on our beloved WKYU.And this is why, last week, we renewed our membership with NPR. Jesse and I will most likely fall below the nations poverty line this year (I learned this from a recent story on NPR!), but we gladly will continue to donate to public radio. Because it is important. It entertains us, yes, but it informs us and gives us conversation and debate and education - out here in the middle of nowhere.So if you ever listen to your local public radio station (or even if you don't!), consider donating during the fall campaign season. It is so valuable, especially to many rural areas that have no other news source. NPR, we love you.- Hannah.